There are many things that kill birds, including chemicals, house cats, destruction of habitats and buildings they fly into. Wildlife of all kinds are currently being crushed by humans, as they have for a long time.
OT: Tick Bite from Lonestar Tick link to warming climate
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So im shocked well not really that a simple post about beware of a new tick and the spread of a new disease has caused a divide on TKR.Anyone got this issue. Cant' eat red meat. More warm weather brings more problems north. Growing up there were no ticks on Long Island now they are everywhere.
A tick bite devastated a N.J. man’s life. Why are cases soaring?
A voracious bloodsucker is invading Garden State backyards.www.nj.com
Fact is growing up on Long Island in the 60 & 70s virtually no one was bit by ticks.
Upstate NY ticks were not in any great numbers friends with homes there never were bothered by ticks .
Now that the climate is warmer there's more ticks in the Mid- Atlantic and Northeast that is a fact. Sure decline in birds might have some effect but bugs and ticks need warm weather to spread and increase in numbers in areas where they have never been and the Lone Star tick is surging in areas where it never was before. Those are facts.
So yes a warming climate ( among other factors) increases ticks in an area and the warm winter we had is going to effect that as well.
Interesting graph on ticks in Monmouth county over the years..
Lone Star is Amblyomma americanum,
The growing importance of lone star ticks in a Lyme disease endemic county: Passive tick surveillance in Monmouth County, NJ, 2006 – 2016
As human cases of tick-borne disease continue to increase, there is a heightened imperative to collect data on human-tick encounters to inform disease prevention. Passive tick surveillance programs that encourage members of the public to submit ticks they have encountered can provide a...
And this surprises you why? I was threatened with a permanent ban for posting new threads related to medical science on the football board, after posting a thread about the avian flu threat, which had nothing to do with the C-word. Clearly you and others are allowed to post medical science threads on this board. I do appear to be allowed to comment on such threads started by others. Basically, I get the blame for the fact that others can't play well in such threads when I start them, which is more than a little unfair. Nice to see GSK's new recombinant protein RSV vaccine approved today, as it will be a lifesaver for many, as well as Lilly's possibly promising phase III data on its Alzheimer's drug ("possibly promising" since judging AD outcomes is fraught with ambiguity) - maybe you should start a thread on those, lol.So im shocked well not really that a simple post about beware of a new tick and the spread of a new disease has caused a divide on TKR.
Fact is growing up on Long Island in the 60 & 70s virtually no one was bit by ticks.
Upstate NY ticks were not in any great numbers friends with homes there never were bothered by ticks .
Now that the climate is warmer there's more ticks in the Mid- Atlantic and Northeast that is a fact. Sure decline in birds might have some effect but bugs and ticks need warm weather to spread and increase in numbers in areas where they have never been and the Lone Star tick is surging in areas where it never was before. Those are facts.
So yes a warming climate ( among other factors) increases ticks in an area and the warm winter we had is going to effect that as well.
Interesting graph on ticks in Monmouth county over the years..
Lone Star is Amblyomma americanum,
The growing importance of lone star ticks in a Lyme disease endemic county: Passive tick surveillance in Monmouth County, NJ, 2006 – 2016
As human cases of tick-borne disease continue to increase, there is a heightened imperative to collect data on human-tick encounters to inform disease prevention. Passive tick surveillance programs that encourage members of the public to submit ticks they have encountered can provide a...journals.plos.org
You forgot about the most important natural bird predator left on this planet: the car, lol.
It’s amazing that such a random thread leads to a pile-on from the usual suspects. They must all follow each other or somehow get an alert.
Obviously, the old timer is just a f*cking idiot with the lowest “likes to posts” ratio on this board. But that “mean girls clique” is just annoying and pathetic.
Also, why should we listen to an actual scientist about science? 🤦🏼♂️ When did the country become so thin-skinned that people can’t admit that they DON’T have expertise, so they have to defer to the people who do?
Obviously, the old timer is just a f*cking idiot with the lowest “likes to posts” ratio on this board. But that “mean girls clique” is just annoying and pathetic.
Also, why should we listen to an actual scientist about science? 🤦🏼♂️ When did the country become so thin-skinned that people can’t admit that they DON’T have expertise, so they have to defer to the people who do?
When science clashes with politics nowadays, whew boy..................
There was a time when we, as a country, accepted that science was imperfect but made us better through medical advancements, technological advances, etc. But nowadays, it does make you wonder if there was this political divide 50-60-70 years ago where'd we be as a country?
An awful lot of Americans have become unbearably loud, pushy and opinionated in recent years about opinions which they have no expertise in. That doesn't stop them from hijacking agendas, like vaccination, to stroke their false egotism.
To a hammer, everything is a nail.
Just data, but it seems that cars in the US kill about 2800 times as many birds as planes. These data are 20 years old, but gotta think the order of magnitude is pretty close.
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www.fs.usda.gov
And here's the money slide from that paper. Pretty obvious windmills and planes are negligible sources of bird kills, compared to many other sources. But it wouldn't surprise me if some of the newly energized "environmentalists" start calling for a moratorium on all new buildings to save the birds.
It tells us absolutely nothing about birds being killed by airplanes, helicopters or even those windmills you evidently cherish off the coast of the mid Atlantic state known an as New Jersey. Number one they would not tell truthfully what was actually happening in the friendly skies not only over the USA but elsewhere.
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To be honest we've had two warmer low/no snow winters so we are seeing a serious increase in the ticks around our yard. They go up (and down) depending on the winter season.
That's a climate change factor but whether a long term or man-made thing I'll let others debate.
We have had one's with the little dots but I never realized a different type. Don't like to use chemicals but the one thing I will do is spray the perimeter brush line of the yard which helps a lot.
No that’s not the case. Suggest you do some actual research analysis of this new climate change phenomenon. Go back to 1945 post WWII. According to many CC advocates the world should have ended prior to the turn of the century… then by 2020 … now 2035 . We have much bigger things to be concerned with rather than the polar ice caps melting, NYC and Miami Fla. being inundated by tidal floods and the plains becoming the next dust bowl like 1928-1945. Don’t fear AI will give us the answers.
Cuz they sprayed DDT Great at killin Ticks but...Anyone got this issue. Cant' eat red meat. More warm weather brings more problems north. Growing up there were no ticks on Long Island now they are everywhere.
A tick bite devastated a N.J. man’s life. Why are cases soaring?
A voracious bloodsucker is invading Garden State backyards.
How’s that new ringworm virus coming along? The one with no treatment which works. A traveler from India and some other person who had no contact with them brought it here. Can’t wait for those other diseases which were eradicated in the US years ago to continue to pop up . Yes , an all inclusive world society bringing the best together.
Ringworm is not a virus its a fungus and its no joke especially the drug resistant one. Ringworm was never eradicated here that is laughable there's no ringworm vaccine as of yet.
The reason why old diseases that were eradicated are spreading again is guess what? Dopes who don't / wont get vaccinated.
It's time to start starving the chickens and make them work for their food, bunch of lazy loafers.
You’re consistently wrong about just about everything 😂
As you state it has been around a long time. So you are claiming there is a vaccine for ringworm ? There is no vaccine. And as for covid 19… only 33 mil have taken the initial bivalent covid shot and the one recommended for 65+. People are seeing it’s something we all will continue to see similar to many other seasonal things like the cold virus. Notice the push for all these new vaccines on tv. There’s $$$$ to be made. Some are good some not so good.It’s quite funny to read that this newest strain of fungus known as ringworm came once again from a visitor from abroad ( India) . An under 25 year old doesn’t need more covid 19 booster shots. Kids in grade school did not require vaccination for covid 19. Most weren’t vaccinated for it.
Another youngster who believes everything that is printed and posted from reliable research. You’ll never learn .
Perhaps you can explain what anything you've posted in this thread has to do with the Lonestar Tick or AGS disease. I'm having trouble following.
Sometimes I wonder if you ever read the posts you respond to. Let's recap...
- You said, "How’s that new ringworm virus coming along? The one with no treatment which works. A traveler from India and some other person who had no contact with them brought it here. Can’t wait for those other diseases which were eradicated in the US years ago to continue to pop up."
- fsg corrected you, saying "ringworm is not a virus its a fungus and its no joke especially the drug resistant one." He also lamented that there's no ringworm vaccine as of yet for humans, although I'm guessing he might not know the difficulties of developing fungal vaccines, given that fungal cells have more similarities to human cells than do viruses or bacteria. This makes it more complicated to design a vaccine that trains the immune system to attack fungal cells without attacking our own cells. Also, fungal infections are fairly rare, so the potential benefits of fungal vaccines are often not considered worth the costs.
- fsg also explained to you that the reason why old diseases that were eradicated in the US years ago and are now spreading again is due to people who don't/wont get vaccinated.
- And your response to fsg's post is to claim he said there's a ringworm vaccine, which he didn't and to then go on an unrelated tirade against COVID vaccines, which nobody was talking about. Again, could you please read posts before you respond to them?
No you busybody you are the tool that doesn’t realize sometime posters bring a completely different topic in an ongoing thread . You , being the Percy of the board should realize that … The ringworm posting was wrong as it is fungal not viral… but it is something more news worthy than the climate change BS… even where I reside now the people here are not buying half that crap. But a new improved virus from India has no med to control it. Fsg is an antagonizer and someone who waits to pounce on anything he / she deems questionable. Actually , I could give 2 shats about what he thinks on anything here. You on the other hand need to worry about the weather forecast for summer.
There are things you can do with pre-existing buildings to make them safer for birds. Sun reflecting off windows, which can be addressed, seems to confuse many birds.And here's the money slide from that paper. Pretty obvious windmills and planes are negligible sources of bird kills, compared to many other sources. But it wouldn't surprise me if some of the newly energized "environmentalists" start calling for a moratorium on all new buildings to save the birds.
